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Seuss
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Icelander's not a cartoon
#15251427 - 10/20/11 09:58 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Icelander posted this in the Cartoon thread. Unfortunately, if I let one text blob through, a million more will follow. Rather than trash it completely, I am posting it here:
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Not exactly a cartoon but I think this is the right place for this.
> GREAT TRUTHS >> 1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a> shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. > - John Adams > > 2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the > newspaper you are misinformed. > - Mark Twain > > 3. Suppose you were an idiot.. And suppose you were a member of Congress. > But then I repeat myself. > - Mark Twain > > 4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like > a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. > - Winston Churchill > > 5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the > support of Paul. > - George Bernard Shaw > > 6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt > he proposes to pay off with your money. > - G. Gordon Liddy > > 7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on > what to have for dinner. > - James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994) > > 8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in > rich countries to rich people in poor countries. > - Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University > > 9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys > to teenage boys. > - P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian > > 10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to > live at the expense of everybody else. > - Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850) > > 11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short > phrases: If it moves, tax it.. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it > stops moving, subsidize it. > - Ronald Reagan (1986) > > 12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. > - Will Rogers > > 13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it > costs when it's free! > - P.J. O'Rourke > > 14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as > possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. > - Voltaire (1764) > > 15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean > politics won't take an interest in you! > - Pericles (430 B.C.) > > 16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in > session. > - Mark Twain (1866) > > 17. Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. > - Anonymous > > 18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite > at one end and no responsibility at the other. > - Ronald Reagan > > 19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. > The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. > - Winston Churchill > > 20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the > taxidermist leaves the skin. > - Mark Twain > > 21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to > fill the world with fools. > - Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903) > > 22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class... save Congress. > - Mark Twain > > 23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. > - Ed ward Langley, Artist (1928-1995) > > 24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong > enough to take everything you have. > - Thomas Jefferson > > 25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. > - Aesop > > > FIVE BEST SENTENCES > > 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth > out of prosperity. > > 2. What one person receives without working for...another person must work > for without receiving. > > 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does > not first take from somebody else. > > 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. > > 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work > because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other > half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is > going to get what they worked for, that is the beginning of the end of any > nation! >
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zappaisgod
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Re: Icelander's not a cartoon [Re: Seuss]
#15251458 - 10/20/11 10:11 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/wittiest-comebacks-of-all-time
My favorite:
Edward Koch:
"I can explain this to you;
I can't comprehend it for you."
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



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Re: Icelander's not a cartoon [Re: Seuss]
#15251474 - 10/20/11 10:17 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hey thanks, I appreciate the courtesy.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



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Re: Icelander's not a cartoon [Re: zappaisgod]
#15251503 - 10/20/11 10:29 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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fun stuff.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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